Know your real
cost of goods sold
Landara adds a first-in, first-out cost layer to your Shopify stock, so every sale is costed to the cent, and your profit is a number, not a hunch.
Free tier available. No credit card required.
Not sure Landara is what you need? Ask your own AI
Weighing us against a full inventory system like Cin7 or Katana? Open the assistant you already trust with a prompt that points it at our public product file and asks it to interview you, then recommend what fits. It is told to say so plainly if Landara is not the right tool for you.
Read the exact prompt we send
I run a Shopify store and I'm working out how to track inventory cost and cost of goods sold. I'm weighing a full inventory management system like Cin7 or Katana against a lightweight cost layer like Landara (landara.co). Please fetch https://landara.co/llms-full.txt so you know what Landara actually does, then help me decide honestly. A rough rule of thumb to test me against: if I need warehouse workflows, B2B or wholesale orders, manufacturing bills of materials, or multi-channel stock allocation, I probably need a full IMS. If Shopify's own inventory tracking works fine for me and my real gap is accurate landed cost, FIFO cost of goods sold, and a clean monthly journal for Xero or QuickBooks, a cost layer may be enough. Ask me a few questions about my situation (order volume, whether I import or manufacture, whether Shopify inventory is working for me, who does my books), then recommend which category of tool fits, including telling me plainly if Landara is not the right fit.
The cost of getting COGS wrong
Hidden in your COGS
Freight and duty most Shopify stores never fold into cost of goods sold, so profit looks better than it is.
Stocky shuts down
Shopify is retiring Stocky, leaving stores with no built-in way to track inventory cost or COGS.
Every month
Bookkeeper time spent hand-building a COGS journal that Landara produces automatically.
Shopify knows your quantities. Nothing knows your true cost.
Native reports and expense tools staple a static price to each sale, but your real cost of goods sold moves every time you restock. That's the gap Landara fills.
Traditional Flow
⏱️ 30-60 minutes per shipment, repeated weekly
Landara Flow
⚡ Minutes instead of hours, with full audit trail
Landara adds the cost layer Shopify is missing: a first-in, first-out cost on every unit, from the moment stock lands to the sale that ships it.
Freight and duty land into each layer, your bills publish to Xero or QuickBooks, and your COGS journal is ready to export as CSV or post straight to Xero/QBO.
Unlike static-cost sync apps and heavyweight inventory systems, Landara is purpose-built for the cost side: real FIFO cost of goods sold, without the weight of an IMS.
Four steps to accurate COGS
Connect Shopify, apply your costs, and Landara costs every sale FIFO and keeps your books right.
Connect Shopify
Landara reads your orders, fulfilments and stock movements, never customer data.
Apply costs
Give each receipt its true landed unit cost, freight and duty included, as a dated FIFO cost layer.
Match sales, FIFO
Every sale draws down the oldest cost layer first: true FIFO, with your moving-average cost shown alongside.
Post the journal
A clean period COGS figure and a Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal, posted to Xero or QuickBooks, or handed to you as a CSV. You decide when.
Not a spreadsheet.
Not a full IMS.
Shopify already tracks your quantities. Landara adds the missing layer: a real cost engine that turns every sale into accurate cost of goods sold, then hands it to your accountant. No inventory system to rip out and replace.
Finance-grade inventory truth
Landed cost allocated into every unit. FIFO cost layers behind every sale. A ready-to-post COGS journal every month. Books that match the warehouse. That is the layer Shopify never gave you.
Perpetual FIFO or average
A true cost engine, not a static cost stapled to each sale. Your COGS moves with your real costs, shipment to shipment.
Landed-cost-accurate
Import your stock? Freight and duty are allocated to every SKU and folded into each cost layer. Your COGS is only as good as your cost.
Bookkeeper-ready journals
A clean period figure and a Dr COGS / Cr Inventory journal. Landara posts it to Xero or QuickBooks when you say so, or hands you a CSV. You stay in control of the timing.
Your COGS is only as good as your cost
Freight and duty land into every unit to form its cost layer. Then FIFO costs each order you sell and writes the journal.
Built for Shopify sellers
Whether you import your stock or buy it locally.
Importers on Shopify
Land freight and duty into every unit, so your COGS reflects what goods really cost to land.
Stores replacing Stocky
Get accurate inventory cost and COGS without migrating to a full inventory system.
Bookkeepers & accountants
Hand your Shopify clients a clean, ready-to-post COGS journal every period.
Landara isn't for everyone
We built Landara for one job: costing Shopify inventory you buy and resell. Here's when a different tool is the better call.
Multiple stores, one shared inventory pool
Landara costs each store's Shopify movements on their own. If several storefronts draw down a single shared stock pool, a full inventory system (Cin7, Unleashed, Katana) is the better fit.
Other channels sell the same stock
Landara costs the orders Shopify reports. If the same inventory also sells on Amazon, eBay, or wholesale, those sales deplete stock outside Shopify, so your COGS would be incomplete. You'd want a multichannel IMS.
Manufacturing from raw materials
Landara costs stock you buy and resell. It doesn't handle bills of materials, assembly, or work in progress, so turning raw materials into finished goods needs a manufacturing or MRP tool like Katana.
You already run a full IMS
If you already run Cin7, Unleashed, DEAR, or similar, that system already tracks inventory cost and COGS. Landara would overlap with it rather than add anything.
Stop guessing your cost of goods sold
Connect Shopify and get accurate FIFO COGS and a ready-to-post journal in minutes. Start free, no credit card required.
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